Clothes wringer



L. TER MAAT.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIB. 1921.

1,%32,87 Patented Oct. 24, 1922. 2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

L. TER MAAT.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18, 192!- L fi y, Patented Oct 2 1, 1922 2SHEETSSHEET 2.

Patented Get. 24, 1922..

err-arse LAURENCE TEE MAA'I,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

Application filed May 18,

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LAURENCE TER MAAT, acitizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Clothes Wringers, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to clothes wringers and its object is to providea power driven wringer with means for facilitating delivery of wetarticles to the rolls and at the same time obviate the necessity ofputting the hands near the rolls, with consequent risk of injury, whenfeeding articles thereto; also to increase the efficiency of the wringerby providing means'for making it certain that all the water pressed outby the rolls will flow into one tub and that the articles passed throughthe rolls will deliver into another.

I have accomplished these objects by slightly modifying the constructionand arrangement of the wringer rolls and by equipping the wringer with asafety feeding apron of special construction, including edges whichcooperate with the rolls in a manner to cause water to be retained onthe apron anld articles placed thereon to be fed to the r0 5.

With these main and other incidental objects in view, my inventionconsists of the organization, details of construction, parts, or theirequivalents, hereinafter described, and more particularly defined in theclaims.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a wringer constructed according to myinvention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section on the line 3-3 Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the rolls with the apron shown incross section.

I have illustrated my invention in connection with a power drivenwringer mounted on a suitable support A and driven through the gear caseB in the usual manner. Ordinarily, the wrin er will be positionedbetween two tubs, D, as in Fig. 1.

The wringer frame may be of the usual construction illustrated, thevarious parts of which need not be described. On the inner side of eachof the vertical end members of the frame and near their lower ends Isecure a pair of horizontally extending bracket members 10 which extendin parallel relation an equal distance from each side of the 1921.Serial No. 470,602.

wringer frame beneath the rolls. On the ends of the members 10 there arej ournaled rollers 11 and spaced inwardly a short distance from theseare second rollers 12 which are mounted in adjustable, bearingscontrolled by set-screws 12 and act as tension controlling means for theapron. The wringer rolls, ordinarily of equal length, are modified tocarry out my invention by makingthe upper roll somewhat shorter than thelower one so that the lower roll projects a little beyond the upper rollat each end, as at 13. The wringer rolls and rollers 11 and 12' justdescribed serve to support an endless feeding and delivering apron 14which passes between the wringer rolls, around the supporting rollers 11and over the idler tension rollers 12. As evident from the drawings, therelation of the supporting rollers to the wringer rolls is such thatboth the upper and lower runs of the apron inclines downwardly andoutwardly fromthe rolls on either side and water carried on the apronwill therefore not drip therefrom except at the ends over the tubs.

The apron 14 is of special construction and constitutes an importantpart of my invention. It may be of any preferred water proof fabric orcomposition, its distinctive feature being that its edges are enlargedfor' thickened and therefore raised above the surfaceof the apron. Theupper rolls of the wringer extend from one raised edge of the apron tothe other and the raised edges are brought into contact with the ends ofthe upper roll as they pass over the lower one, as indicated at 15, Fig.4. In the present instance I have shown the apron edges as thickened bymeans of a cord 16 inclosed in hems on the edges of the apron. When theapron is stretched over its supports, the

thickened edges, which press on the rollers 11 and on the lower wringerroll, are forced to project above thesurface of the apron whichtherefore presents a trou h-like shape. Incidentally, the corded orthlckened edges reinforce the apron, prevent the stretching, and, due tocontact with the ends of the upper roll, keep the apron inproperposition.

It results from the construction described that water pressed from theclothes cannot flow over the edges of the apron, but must flow down theapron into the tub, and also that articles passing through the rollswill be retained on the apron and properly delivered. It further resultsthat the articles placed on the lower part of the apron will be raisedand guided thereby to the rolls, making it unnecessary for the personfeeding the wringer to bring hand or fingers within dangerous distanceof the rolls.

It will therefore be evident that I have provided a novel constructionwhich increases the efliciency of this class of devices and makes forsafety in their operation, and I claim as my invention:

1. In a wrin'ger, the combination with the pair of wringer rolls of aninclined movable conveyor apron engaged between the rolls 7 andextending from end to end thereof, and

means comprising a projecting portion on each edge of the apron engagingthe ends of the upper roll for guiding the apron and preventing escapeof Water over the apron v edges.

2. A Wringer comprising a pair of Wringer mediate the ends of saidsupports.

3. A wringer comprising a pair of wringer rolls, one of saidrollsprojecting beyond the other, and an endless apron supported to passbetween said rolls and formed with projecting edges engaging the ends ofthe shorter roll.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LAURENCE TER MAAT.

